Reddit was down – the popular discussion platform was heavily overloaded

On Wednesday, Reddit received a massive response, plunging millions of its loyal users into a debate where they had nowhere to share their fervent opinions, memes and something amazing.

As of 5:21 p.m. ET, the popular discussion platform seemed to have returned to normal.

The fault detector showed that the temperature rise graph in the south direction, the worst of the reports of power outages, is already over.

Details about why the platform went down at all are still waiting on Reddit, but everything that happened is already here.

• November 21, 2024 at 5:36 AM

Hold on a second. Just as Reddit appeared to be truly recovering, we saw a new and far more dire message when we tried to access Reddit.com

A CDN going down or being unable to communicate with servers is far more serious and could indicate some kind of backbone outage. Reddit is a big system and probably needs a lot of back-end server support to keep delivering all those hot memes. Some part of that infrastructure could be down.

Our colleagues over at Tom's Guide got this statement from Reddit: "The teams are working on it but we don't have a timeline to share."